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The following month, he played the last 18 minutes of United's 3 0 FA Cup win at Northampton but sad times suddenly descended when his uncle Frank was killed on a family night out which included Phil's parents Jeanette and Tony.

Tony, 46, and wife Janette, 44, are the stewards of Kersal Social Club and their football crazy son was able to watch United first team stars limbering up from his bedroom window on the first floor of the club.

Born in Hope Hospital in 1985, Phil was Jordan 11 Gamma Blue Price playing for Charlestown Youth Club at the age of eight when his talents were spotted by United scout Terry Beckett, who signed him for the club's school of excellence.

AS Salford's own Phil Bardsley continues his meteoric rise to the Manchester United first team, there will be one face missing from the stands at Old Trafford his favourite uncle and first manager Frank Buckley.

He went from strength to strength, said his proud dad, never wanting to do anything other than play football although the family spent every May with fingers crossed wondering whether he was going to be signed on for another season.

Phil, a former pupil at Lower Kersal Primary and Hope High schools, was always destined to be a United player, said his dad, as the family lived not far from the then training ground of the club at Littleton Road.

But he bounced back and being included in the Asia tour with the Reds first team in the summer was a huge boost, as Jordans 13 Black

The local's at Tony Bardsley's club are immensely proud of their local boy made good and pack the club every time United player.

Regular Steve Foster, the former Commonwealth light middleweight champion, said: "Everyone here is over the moon for Phil, because he's such a decent, level headed kid.

Frank, who helped set his nephew on the road to success, was brutally killed by thugs outside Yates' Wine Lodge in Swinton in March 2004, just three months after Phil, 20, made his full debut for Manchester United in a Carling Cup tie at West Bromwich Albion.

Frank is the one person Phil would have loved to have seen sitting in the stand when he played for Manchester United against Benfica at Old Trafford.

"He wasn't just Phil's favourite uncle, he was also his manager when Phil played for Swinton Boys, and helped him along in his career.

At the time Phil was on loan to Royal Antwerp and troubled with Achilles and back injuries. Last season the back problems kept him out for almost the entire year, raising fears his career was over.

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"If they had a bad first half, he would talk quietly to the lads and when they came out for the second half, they were a completely different side altogether."

in the FA Youth Cup winning team of 2003, alongside Kieran Richardson and made his first team debut in a 2 0 Carling Cup defeat at West Brom in December 2003 when Sir Alex Ferguson described him as 'outstanding'.

"Frank was a great inspiration to him to succeed, not by shouting, but by calmly urging them to do better.

was his Premiership debut as a substitute against Blackburn, prior to his start against Benfica.